Once were warriors

Duff, Alan

Original title: Once Were Warriors (Once Were Warriors Trilogy #1)

earliest edition we have, 1991 University of Queensland Press, 1991 198 pages

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Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left...

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Once were warriors edition · 1995 · Vintage · 198 pages
Once were warriors edition · 1995 · Vintage International · 192 pages
Once were warriors edition · 1994 · University of Hawaii Press · 192 pages
Once were warriors edition · 1991 · University of Queensland Press · 198 pages

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